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* {{Foil}}: Kurogane is a violent WellIntentionedExtremist who grooms his son Arashi to be an OverlordJr. In contrast, Masurao is a genuinely good man who's kept unaware of the evil deeds of the Wind Gang and he does not force his obsessions on his son Hiwou.
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* MsFanservice: For some reason the manga version turns the minor antagonist Nue into the typical femme fatale who tempts enemies with her nude body only to get uncerimoniously killed in an also eroticized way not too long after being introduced.
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* MsFanservice: For some reason In the manga version turns version, the minor antagonist Nue into is the typical femme fatale ninja who tempts enemies with her nude body only to get uncerimoniously killed in an also eroticized way not too long after being introduced.introduced. This isn't the case in the anime adaptation, where neither she nor any other female character are seen naked.
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** In the manga version, Nue is mortally wounded by Sakamoto mercilessly shooting her in the chest after Yuki distracts her by biting her arm. In a panic, she tries fighting back by bursting CombatTentacles out of her clothes but is then shot in the head and is blown off the rooftop right onto a pile of crates on the floor. This happens uncerimoniously [[KilledOffscreen between pages]], while her breasts are exposed due to ClothingDamage, and her being killed by a firearm only adds to the humiliation because the Wind Gang people reject foreign technology and weaponry in favor of clockwork gimmickry. A MsFanservice being killed ''so needlessly hard'' is [[DropDeadGorgeous nothing short of fetishistic]].
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** In the manga version, Nue is mortally wounded by Sakamoto mercilessly shooting her in the chest after Yuki distracts her by biting her arm. In a panic, she tries fighting back by bursting CombatTentacles out of her clothes but is then shot in the head and is blown off the rooftop right onto a pile of crates on the floor. This happens uncerimoniously [[KilledOffscreen between pages]], while her breasts are exposed due to ClothingDamage, and her being killed by a firearm only adds to the humiliation because the Wind Gang people reject foreign technology and weaponry in favor of clockwork gimmickry. A MsFanservice being killed ''so needlessly hard'' is [[DropDeadGorgeous nothing short of fetishistic]].
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* TheSmurfettePrinciple: Nue is the only henchwoman in the Wind Gang, and a very minor one at that. In the anime she's prominently featured in a single episode and then only returns in a brief scene in the final episode. In the manga she loses a mech fight to Hiwou and is easily slaughtered by Sakamoto when she's cornered by him.
* SpiderTank: In episode 2, Arashi pilots a car-sized locomotive on spider-like legs.
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* TheSmurfettePrinciple: Nue is the only henchwoman in the Wind Gang, and a very minor one at that. In the anime she's prominently featured in a single episode and then only returns in a brief scene in the final episode. In the manga she loses a mech fight to Hiwou and is easily slaughtered by Sakamoto when she's cornered by him.
* SpiderTank: In episode 2, Arashi pilots a car-sized locomotive on spider-like legs.
* SpiderTank: In episode 2, Arashi pilots a car-sized locomotive on spider-like legs.
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* SpikesOfVillainy: Several of the villainous Wind Gang ninjas wear helmets decorated with spikes.
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* DarkerAndEdgier: The manga is more violent than the relatively family-friendly anime version and was directed at mature audiences. And that's actually how the story was originally envisioned as.
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** The Homura can shift between carriage and humanoid forms. As a spring-controlled giant mech, it is piloted by Hiwou's movements via a suit within it.
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** The Homura can shift between carriage and humanoid forms. As a spring-controlled giant mech, forms, with charged mainsprings having to be set around its body to turn it on. It is piloted by Hiwou's movements via a suit within it.its cockpit.
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* ImpossiblyGracefulGiant: Averted with Homura, which is a stiff and heavy medieval robot powered by mainsprings.
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* ImpossiblyGracefulGiant: Averted with Homura, which is a stiff and heavy medieval robot powered by mainsprings. The team must also keep it in carriage mode and pull it everywhere to save on those resources, leading to complications when they need to transverse difficult terrain.
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The anime can actually be considered the LighterAndSofter adaptation of an even more obscure ''seinen'' manga version that is truer to the author's vision and began serialization on the Monthly Magazine Z anthology just over a year before in 1999. The manga was published concurrently with the anime as it went along and ended at four volumes.
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The anime can is actually be considered the LighterAndSofter adaptation of an even more obscure a little-known ''seinen'' manga version that is truer to the author's vision and began serialization on the Monthly Magazine Z anthology just over a year before in 1999. The manga was published concurrently with the anime as it went along and ended at four volumes.
* AdaptationDeviation: The anime adaptation was directed at younger audiences, so its tone and story differ from what happens from the second volume of manga and onwards.
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* DeathByAdaptation: In the anime, Nue is defeated non-lethally both times she appears as an antagonist. In the manga, she is shot to death by Sakamoto.
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* DroppedABridgeOnHim: In the next-to-last episode, Kurogane attempts to drive the Westerners away with his machines but Hiwou stomps around his forces with Homura to get the fighting to stop. Kurogane is cut off by an explosion and is presumed to die uncerimoniously like that while Arashi just leaves out of regret for everything he's lost in the conflict, finally ending the series-long conflict with the Wind Gang.
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* DroppedABridgeOnHim: In the next-to-last episode, Kurogane attempts to drive the Westerners away with his machines but Hiwou stomps around his forces with Homura to get the fighting to stop. Kurogane is cut off by an explosion and is presumed to die uncerimoniously like that while Arashi just leaves out of regret for everything he's lost in the conflict, that, finally ending the series-long conflict with the Wind Gang.
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** While Arashi acts aloof towards his allies that help operate the Mikoto, he is heartbroken when Ishi dies from their last confrontation with the Homura and gives up on fighting Hiwou any more.
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* HotterAndSexier: The anime has no fanservice scenes at all in it, so it's jarring how the manga adaptation features Nue hypnotizing Sakamoto and then Sai with tattoos on her nude body only to end up being killed with her tits out.
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* NippleAndDimed: The ''seinen'' manga version adds nudity scenes for the kunoichi Nue, but her nipples are only fully detailed on one page. On all the others, the illustrator only draws her areolae or frames her hypnotic body with obscuring dream-like imagery.
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* NippleAndDimed: The ''seinen'' manga version adds features nudity scenes for the kunoichi Nue, but her nipples are only fully detailed on one page. On all the others, the illustrator only draws her areolae or frames her hypnotic body with obscuring dream-like imagery.
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* SparedByTheAdaptation: In the manga, Nue is brutally shot to death by Sakamoto during a hostage situation. In the anime, she is defeated non-lethally both times she appears as an antagonist, complete with Sakamoto instead declaring that killing her wouldn't solve anything.
* TamerAndChaster: The manga version features Nue hypnotizing Sakamoto and then Sai with tattoos on her nude body only to end up being killed with her tits out. The anime version features no nudity scenes at all.
* TamerAndChaster: The manga version features Nue hypnotizing Sakamoto and then Sai with tattoos on her nude body only to end up being killed with her tits out. The anime version features no nudity scenes at all.
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* MundaneUtility: Towards the end of the series, Hiwou breaks the fighting between the Wind Gang and the Americans by being a ThreateningMediator and making Homura stomp and dance around them. It is understood the actual point of the machine is to be used as a giant performer, and not as a weapon of war.
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** In the manga version, Nue is mortally wounded by Sakamoto mercilessly shooting her in the chest after Yuki distracts her by biting her arm. In a panic, she tries fighting back by bursting CombatTentacles out of her clothes but is then shot in the head and is blown off the rooftop right onto a pile of crates on the floor. This happens uncerimoniously [[KilledOffscreen between pages]], while her breasts are exposed due to ClothingDamage, and her being killed by a firearm only adds to the humiliation once one considers how the Wind Gang people are all about traditionalism, clockwork gimmickry and rejecting foreign technology and weaponry. A MsFanservice being killed ''so needlessly hard'' is [[DropDeadGorgeous nothing short of fetishistic]].
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** In the manga version, Nue is mortally wounded by Sakamoto mercilessly shooting her in the chest after Yuki distracts her by biting her arm. In a panic, she tries fighting back by bursting CombatTentacles out of her clothes but is then shot in the head and is blown off the rooftop right onto a pile of crates on the floor. This happens uncerimoniously [[KilledOffscreen between pages]], while her breasts are exposed due to ClothingDamage, and her being killed by a firearm only adds to the humiliation once one considers how because the Wind Gang people are all about traditionalism, clockwork gimmickry and rejecting reject foreign technology and weaponry.weaponry in favor of clockwork gimmickry. A MsFanservice being killed ''so needlessly hard'' is [[DropDeadGorgeous nothing short of fetishistic]].
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** In the manga version, Nue is mortally wounded by Sakamoto mercilessly shooting her in the chest after Yuki distracts her by biting her arm. In a panic, she tries fighting back by bursting CombatTentacles out of her clothes but is then shot in the head and is blown off the rooftop right onto a pile of crates on the floor. This happens uncerimoniously [[KilledOffscreen between pages]], while her breasts are exposed due to ClothingDamage, and her being killed by a firearm only adds to the humiliation once one considers how the Wind Gang people are all about traditionalism, clockwork gimmickry and being adverse to foreign technology and weaponry. A MsFanservice being killed ''so needlessly hard'' is [[DropDeadGorgeous nothing short of fetishistic]].
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** In the manga version, Nue is mortally wounded by Sakamoto mercilessly shooting her in the chest after Yuki distracts her by biting her arm. In a panic, she tries fighting back by bursting CombatTentacles out of her clothes but is then shot in the head and is blown off the rooftop right onto a pile of crates on the floor. This happens uncerimoniously [[KilledOffscreen between pages]], while her breasts are exposed due to ClothingDamage, and her being killed by a firearm only adds to the humiliation once one considers how the Wind Gang people are all about traditionalism, clockwork gimmickry and being adverse to rejecting foreign technology and weaponry. A MsFanservice being killed ''so needlessly hard'' is [[DropDeadGorgeous nothing short of fetishistic]].
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* TotemPoleTrench: Hiwou pilots Homura by manipulating an adult-sized suit while riding on Shishi's shoulders.
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* TotemPoleTrench: TwoMenOneDress: Hiwou pilots Homura by manipulating an adult-sized suit while riding on Shishi's shoulders.
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* OutfitRipSexCheck: Yuki is a prince under threat of kidnapping and political assassination who has an identical female twin named Hana. When Nue is sent to capture him in the anime, she attempts to take both twins away. In the manga version she's instead just seen carrying a naked Yuki.
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* OutfitRipSexCheck: Yuki is a prince under threat of kidnapping and political assassination who has an identical female twin sister named Hana. When Nue is sent to capture him in the anime, she attempts to take both twins away. In the manga version she's instead just seen carrying a naked Yuki.
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* BloodlessCarnage: In one episode of the anime, a monk is beaten to death by robot monkeys but is left without any visible injuries as he gives his LongLastingLastWords and a TragicKeepsake to Hiwou.
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* LongLastingLastWords: Several mortally wounded characters only die after giving long dying speeches to Hiwou. Most notably Masurao, who dies in Hiwou's arms while explaining the meaning of his name, and Sakamoto, who dies with his face comically pressed on the floor while begging Hiwou to never enter a path of revenge.
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* MeaningfulName: In his dying speech, Masurao tells Hiwou that the kanji in his name means "to drive away" and that he hopes the boy can drive away war and bring about a new era of peace.
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* MeaningfulName: In his dying speech, Masurao tells Hiwou that the kanji in his the boy's name means "to drive away" and that he hopes the boy can drive war away war and bring about a new era of peace.
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** In the anime, Nue [[KarmaHoudini gets away with]] the murder of a man and attempted kidnapping of Yuki and Hana when the heroes, including Sakamoto, decide killing a mere henchwoman after disarming her would be senseless. In the manga's equivalent scene, Sakamoto instead goes out of his way to mortally wound Nue when she tries to kidnap Yuki. Nue isn't even dignified with a fight scene as Sakamoto finishes her off with a bullet to the head [[KilledOffscreen between pages]] and leaves her naked corpse sprawled over a pile of rubble. Her death indeed comes off as too brutal and pointless, with Sakamoto knowing that even if it was in self-defense, Hiwou wouldn't forgive him for this murder if he ever found out about it.
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** In the anime, Nue [[KarmaHoudini gets away with]] the murder of a man and attempted kidnapping of Yuki and Hana when the heroes, including Sakamoto, decide killing a mere henchwoman after disarming her would be senseless. In the manga's equivalent scene, Sakamoto instead goes out of his way to mortally wound Nue when she tries to kidnap Yuki. Nue isn't even dignified with a fight scene as Sakamoto finishes her off with a bullet to the head [[KilledOffscreen between pages]] and leaves her naked corpse sprawled over a pile of rubble. Her death indeed comes off as too brutal and pointless, with Sakamoto knowing that even if it was in self-defense, Hiwou wouldn't forgive would hate him for this murder if he ever found out about it.
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** In the manga version, Nue is mortally wounded by Sakamoto mercilessly shooting her in the chest after Yuki distracts her by biting her arm. In a panic, she tries fighting back by bursting CombatTentacles out of her clothes but is then shot in the head and is blown off the rooftop right onto a pile of crates on the floor. This happens uncerimoniously [[KilledOffscreen between pages]], while her breasts are exposed due to ClothingDamage, and her being killed by a firearm only adds to the humiliation once one considers how the Wind Gang people are all about traditionalism, clockwork gimmickry and being adverse to foreign technology and weaponry. She's A MsFanservice being killed ''so needlessly hard'', it's hard'' is [[DropDeadGorgeous nothing short of fetishistic]].
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* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: The Wind Gang attempts to take over Japan through violence and to drive away foreign influence over the country so they can establish a new industrial revolution.
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* UndignifiedDeath:
** In the manga version, Nue is mortally wounded by Sakamoto mercilessly shooting her in the chest after Yuki distracts her by biting her arm. In a panic, she tries fighting back by bursting CombatTentacles out of her clothes but is then shot in the head and is blown off the rooftop right onto a pile of crates on the floor. This happens uncerimoniously [[KilledOffscreen between pages]], while her breasts are exposed due to ClothingDamage, and her being killed by a firearm only adds to the humiliation once one considers how the Wind Gang people are all about traditionalism, clockwork gimmickry and being adverse to foreign technology and weaponry. She's killed ''so needlessly hard'', it's [[DropDeadGorgeous nothing short of fetishistic]].
** In the final episode, Sakamoto is assassinated and is found mortally wounded on the floor by Hiwou. Problem is, he's ''face-planted'' on the floor with a small blood puddle under his face the whole time he's giving a final speech about peace to Hiwou, which makes his fate seem oddly pathetic for the tone of the scene.
* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: The Wind Gang attempts to take over Japan through violence and to drive away foreign influence over the country so they can establish a new industrial revolution.
** In the manga version, Nue is mortally wounded by Sakamoto mercilessly shooting her in the chest after Yuki distracts her by biting her arm. In a panic, she tries fighting back by bursting CombatTentacles out of her clothes but is then shot in the head and is blown off the rooftop right onto a pile of crates on the floor. This happens uncerimoniously [[KilledOffscreen between pages]], while her breasts are exposed due to ClothingDamage, and her being killed by a firearm only adds to the humiliation once one considers how the Wind Gang people are all about traditionalism, clockwork gimmickry and being adverse to foreign technology and weaponry. She's killed ''so needlessly hard'', it's [[DropDeadGorgeous nothing short of fetishistic]].
** In the final episode, Sakamoto is assassinated and is found mortally wounded on the floor by Hiwou. Problem is, he's ''face-planted'' on the floor with a small blood puddle under his face the whole time he's giving a final speech about peace to Hiwou, which makes his fate seem oddly pathetic for the tone of the scene.
* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: The Wind Gang attempts to take over Japan through violence and to drive away foreign influence over the country so they can establish a new industrial revolution.
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* DisappearedDad: Hiwou's father Masurao left home in the backstory of the series and is later found to be working with the Wind Gang because they're the only group that lets he do as he please to further his research on clockworks.
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* DisappearedDad: Hiwou's father Masurao left home in the backstory of the series and is later found to be working with the Wind Gang because they're the only group that lets he do as he please pleases to further his research on clockworks.
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* OutfitRipSexCheck: Yuki is a prince under threat of kidnapping and political assassination who has an identical female twin named Hana. When Nue is sent to capture him in the anime, she attempts to take both twins away. In the manga version she's just seen carrying a naked Yuki.
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* OutfitRipSexCheck: Yuki is a prince under threat of kidnapping and political assassination who has an identical female twin named Hana. When Nue is sent to capture him in the anime, she attempts to take both twins away. In the manga version she's instead just seen carrying a naked Yuki.
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** In the anime, Nue [[KarmaHoudini gets away with]] the murder of a man and attempted kidnapping of Yuki and Hana when the heroes, including Sakamoto, decide killing a mere henchwoman like her would be senseless. In the manga's equivalent scene, Sakamoto instead goes out of his way to mortally wound Nue when she tries to kidnap Yuki. Nue isn't even dignified with a fight scene as Sakamoto finishes her off with a bullet to the head [[KilledOffscreen between pages]] and leaves her naked corpse sprawled over a pile of rubble. Her brutal death indeed comes off as pointless, with Sakamoto knowing that even if it was in self-defense, Hiwou wouldn't forgive him for this murder if he ever found out about it.
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* OutfitRipSexCheck: Yuki is a prince under threat of kidnapping and political assassination who has an identical female twin named Hana. When Nue is sent to capture him in the anime, she attempts to take both twins away. In the manga version she's just seen carrying a naked Yuki.
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Set in a version of the Japanese Meiji period where people create "[[ClockPunk Clockwork Dolls]]" for everyday purposes and festivals, the story follows a boy named Hiwou as he opposes the Wind Gang that destroyed his hometown and captured its citizens. He and his friends acquire the Homura, a clockwork doll that functions as an HumongousMecha, and use it to both travel the lands and fight the Wind Gang's machines.
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Set in a version of the Japanese Meiji period where people create all sorts of "[[ClockPunk Clockwork Dolls]]" for everyday purposes and festivals, the story follows a boy named Hiwou as he opposes the evil ambitions of the Wind Gang that destroyed his hometown and captured its citizens. He and his friends acquire the Homura, a clockwork doll that functions as an HumongousMecha, and use it to both travel the lands and fight the Wind Gang's machines.
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''Hiwou War Chronicles'' (機巧奇傳ヒヲウ戦記, literally ''Fantastical Clockwork Tale: Record of Hiwou's War''), also known as ''Clockwork Fighters: Hiwou's War'', is a 2000 anime series by Creator/ShoAikawa with direction by Tetsuro Amino and character designs by Hiroshi Osaka. It was the first series produced by Creator/StudioBones and ran for 26 episodes.
Set in a version of the Japanese Meiji period where people create "[[ClockPunk Clockwork Dolls]]" for everyday purposes and festivals, the story follows a boy named Hiwou as he opposes the Wind Gang that destroyed his hometown and captured its citizens. He and his friends acquire the Homura, a clockwork doll that functions as an HumongousMecha, and use it to both travel the lands and fight the Wind Gang's machines.
The anime can actually be considered the LighterAndSofter adaptation of an even more obscure ''seinen'' manga version that is truer to the author's vision and began serialization on the Monthly Magazine Z anthology just over a year before in 1999. The manga was published concurrently with the anime as it went along and ended at four volumes.
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* AbnormalAmmo: The Wind Gang uses winged missiles decorated with cute angry eyes and a beak.
* AlasPoorVillain:
** In the anime, Nue [[KarmaHoudini gets away with]] the murder of a man and attempted kidnapping of Yuki and Hana when the heroes, including Sakamoto, decide killing a mere henchwoman like her would be senseless. In the manga's equivalent scene, Sakamoto instead goes out of his way to mortally wound Nue when she tries to kidnap Yuki. Nue isn't even dignified with a fight scene as Sakamoto finishes her off with a bullet to the head [[KilledOffscreen between pages]] and leaves her naked corpse sprawled over a pile of rubble. Her brutal death indeed comes off as pointless, with Sakamoto knowing that even if it was in self-defense, Hiwou wouldn't forgive him for this murder if he ever found out about it.
** Arashi and his teenage comrades are hardly evil in spite of the trouble they cause throughout the story, so when their rivalry with Hiwou's team finally gets to the point Ishi is mortally wounded by the destruction of the Mikoto and dies a very slow death through an entire episode, it's just disheartening and it causes Arashi to finally give up to keep from losing anyone else.
* BigBad: Kurogane, the isolationist leader of the Wind Gang who wants to take over Japan with his machines.
* ChildSoldiers: Hiwou and his friends get caught into armed conflict several times as they drive their giant robot to search for Masurao. Then there's Kurogane's son Arashi and a trio of boys his age who help him in the giant robot battles against Hiwou. By the end, one of those boys actually dies from injuries sustained in their final battle.
* ChildrenAreInnocent: Hiwou is a kind boy who sticks to pacifist ideals. On the bad guys' side, the young Arashi is obsessed with defeating Hiwou and the Homura mech honorably, in contrast to the older Aka who is ruthless and willing to follow Kurogane's orders to get rid of the heroes.
* ClockPunk: The series features all sorts of machines powered by springs.
* CombatTentacles: A ninja technique used by the Wind Clan people is to shoot multiple cords with blades on the ends from out of their clothes, giving the impression of this trope.
* CycleOfRevenge: At the end of the anime, Sakamoto falls victim to a political assassination but in his dying moments he convinces Hiwou to not pursue whoever is responsible and to instead keep using Homura to uphold the peace in Japan.
* DarkerAndEdgier: The manga is more violent than the relatively family-friendly anime version and was directed at mature audiences. And that's actually how the story was originally envisioned as.
* DeathByAdaptation: In the anime, Nue is defeated non-lethally both times she appears as an antagonist. In the manga, she is shot to death by Sakamoto.
* DefiantToTheEnd: In the manga, Sakamoto shoots Nue in the chest in cold blood when she's distracted by her hostage Yuki biting her arm. After gasping at the mortal wound in disbelief, Nue grits her teeth and retaliates by leaping at Sakamoto with centipede-like appendages, [[CurbStompBattle but on the next page]] she already is a cold corpse with smoke pouring out of a bullet hole in her forehead.
* DiedInYourArmsTonight: Masurao dies in Hiwou's arms after a long dramatic speech, with the boy [[StunnedSilence just staring]] at the dead man in shock for a while even as dozens of explosions go off around him.
* DisappearedDad: Hiwou's father Masurao left home in the backstory of the series and is later found to be working with the Wind Gang because they're the only group that lets he do as he please to further his research on clockworks.
* DistractedByTheSexy: In the manga, Sakamoto is flustered to see Nue naked before him and is put to sleep by her hypnosis power. However, Sakamoto doesn't hesitate to shoot a half-naked Nue to death later when she takes Yuki hostage.
* DoomedHometown: The first episode involves Hiwou's hometown being burned to the ground by the Wind Gang, with most of the villagers being taken as hostages.
* TheDragon: Arashi is the son of the Wind Gang's leader and Aka is his second-in-command. The two regularly appear to attack the protagonists with various machines.
* DropDeadGorgeous: In the manga, Nue bares her chest one final time when she [[BattleStrip rips off her costume]] by releasing centipede-like CombatTentacles on Sakamoto. She's shot dead between pages and her half-naked corpse is shown sprawled over a pile of broken crates.
* DroppedABridgeOnHim: In the next-to-last episode, Kurogane attempts to drive the Westerners away with his machines but Hiwou stomps around his forces with Homura to get the fighting to stop. Kurogane is cut off by an explosion and is presumed to die uncerimoniously like that while Arashi just leaves out of regret for everything he's lost in the conflict, finally ending the series-long conflict with the Wind Gang.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes:
** Kurogane sends Aka to dispose of his son Arashi for disobeying orders, but that is ultimately shown to have just been meant to scare Arashi and keep him in line. In the same accident that causes Masurao to sacrifice himself for Hiwou, Kurogane is seen holding onto Arashi to keep him away from it.
** While Arashi acts aloof towards his allies that help operate the Mikoto, he is heartbroken when Ishi dies from their last confrontation with the Homura and gives up on fighting Hiwou any more.
* HeroicSacrifice: Masurao sacrifices his life for his son Hiwou by shielding him from being crushed between a wall and a large mech that rolled out of control on the unstable ship they were on.
* HistoricalInJoke: Hiwou encounters several historical figures throughout the series, before they made it big during the Meiji Restoration.
* HotterAndSexier: The anime has no fanservice scenes at all in it, so it's jarring how the manga adaptation features Nue hypnotizing Sakamoto and then Sai with tattoos on her nude body only to end up being killed with her tits out.
* HumongousMecha:
** The Homura can shift between carriage and humanoid forms. As a spring-controlled giant mech, it is piloted by Hiwou's movements via a suit within it.
** Arashi eventually counters Homura with a steam-powered combining mecha named Mikoto that was designed with help from Hiwou's father.
* ImpossiblyGracefulGiant: Averted with Homura, which is a stiff and heavy medieval robot powered by mainsprings.
* KidHero: The protagonist and his group of siblings and friends are all children. Jyoubu, the baby in the group, even has a role in activating Homura -- he's left swinging around as a counterweight in a bowl.
* KillerRabbit: Kurozaru fights by unleashing an army of robot monkeys on his enemies. They're small, cute and very hard to take seriously, but they do beat at least one man to death in the story.
* KnowWhenToFoldEm: Arashi spends the series clashing against Hiwou until it costs the life of his friend Ishi. With the defeat of the whole Wind Gang happening at the same time, the boy just calls it quits in grief instead of pursuing any more revenge against the heroes.
* MeaningfulName: In his dying speech, Masurao tells Hiwou that the kanji in his name means "to drive away" and that he hopes the boy can drive away war and bring about a new era of peace.
* MiniMecha: The Wind Gang's henchmen often ride animal-like mechs controlled by strings into combat.
* MsFanservice: For some reason the manga version turns the minor antagonist Nue into the typical femme fatale who tempts enemies with her nude body only to get uncerimoniously killed in an also eroticized way not too long after being introduced.
* NakedPeopleAreFunny: In episode 2, Shishi is being pulled to Homura by a fishing line when an attack dog keeps jumping at him with a torch in its mouth. He air jumps aboard in pain, with Hiwou laughing at how the fire burned his pants and exposed his butt.
* NippleAndDimed: The ''seinen'' manga version adds nudity scenes for the kunoichi Nue, but her nipples are only fully detailed on one page. On all the others, the illustrator only draws her areolae or frames her hypnotic body with obscuring dream-like imagery.
* OffingTheOffspring: Kurogane orders Aka to dispose of Arashi for disobeying his orders and protecting Yuki and Hana. Arashi attempts to strike his father down for this, but Hiwou interrupts him, insisting Arashi must forgive Kurogane simply because he is his father.
* PastelChalkedFreezeFrame: The anime features several pastel-colored freeze frames.
* PutOnABus: Nue is the antagonist in episode 12 of the anime but disappears until the final episode, where she's just beaten again in a very quick scene. Still a better outcome for her than how she's brutally killed in the manga...
* QuirkyMinibossSquad: The heroes are frequently followed by oddball henchmen from the Wind Gang who use a variety of inventive machines.
* SchizoTech: The story takes place in the [=1860s=] and features exaggerated clockwork machines powered by mainsprings and steam power that wouldn't be doable in that time period.
* TeamDad: Sai is the actual leader of Hiwou's squad who makes all the important decisions regarding their next destination.
* TeamMom: Among the main cast, Mayu is the one who keeps Hiwou and Shishi in line whenever they start getting into trouble.
* TheSmurfettePrinciple: Nue is the only henchwoman in the Wind Gang, and a very minor one at that. In the anime she's prominently featured in a single episode and then only returns in a brief scene in the final episode. In the manga she loses a mech fight to Hiwou and is easily slaughtered by Sakamoto when she's cornered by him.
* SpiderTank: In episode 2, Arashi pilots a car-sized locomotive on spider-like legs.
* ThouShaltNotKill: Hiwou hates murderers and dissuades people from killing their enemies throughout the story whenever possible.
* TotemPoleTrench: Hiwou pilots Homura by manipulating an adult-sized suit while riding on Shishi's shoulders.
* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: The Wind Gang attempts to take over Japan through violence and to drive away foreign influence over the country so they can establish a new industrial revolution.
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Set in a version of the Japanese Meiji period where people create "[[ClockPunk Clockwork Dolls]]" for everyday purposes and festivals, the story follows a boy named Hiwou as he opposes the Wind Gang that destroyed his hometown and captured its citizens. He and his friends acquire the Homura, a clockwork doll that functions as an HumongousMecha, and use it to both travel the lands and fight the Wind Gang's machines.
The anime can actually be considered the LighterAndSofter adaptation of an even more obscure ''seinen'' manga version that is truer to the author's vision and began serialization on the Monthly Magazine Z anthology just over a year before in 1999. The manga was published concurrently with the anime as it went along and ended at four volumes.
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!!This series contain examples of:
* AbnormalAmmo: The Wind Gang uses winged missiles decorated with cute angry eyes and a beak.
* AlasPoorVillain:
** In the anime, Nue [[KarmaHoudini gets away with]] the murder of a man and attempted kidnapping of Yuki and Hana when the heroes, including Sakamoto, decide killing a mere henchwoman like her would be senseless. In the manga's equivalent scene, Sakamoto instead goes out of his way to mortally wound Nue when she tries to kidnap Yuki. Nue isn't even dignified with a fight scene as Sakamoto finishes her off with a bullet to the head [[KilledOffscreen between pages]] and leaves her naked corpse sprawled over a pile of rubble. Her brutal death indeed comes off as pointless, with Sakamoto knowing that even if it was in self-defense, Hiwou wouldn't forgive him for this murder if he ever found out about it.
** Arashi and his teenage comrades are hardly evil in spite of the trouble they cause throughout the story, so when their rivalry with Hiwou's team finally gets to the point Ishi is mortally wounded by the destruction of the Mikoto and dies a very slow death through an entire episode, it's just disheartening and it causes Arashi to finally give up to keep from losing anyone else.
* BigBad: Kurogane, the isolationist leader of the Wind Gang who wants to take over Japan with his machines.
* ChildSoldiers: Hiwou and his friends get caught into armed conflict several times as they drive their giant robot to search for Masurao. Then there's Kurogane's son Arashi and a trio of boys his age who help him in the giant robot battles against Hiwou. By the end, one of those boys actually dies from injuries sustained in their final battle.
* ChildrenAreInnocent: Hiwou is a kind boy who sticks to pacifist ideals. On the bad guys' side, the young Arashi is obsessed with defeating Hiwou and the Homura mech honorably, in contrast to the older Aka who is ruthless and willing to follow Kurogane's orders to get rid of the heroes.
* ClockPunk: The series features all sorts of machines powered by springs.
* CombatTentacles: A ninja technique used by the Wind Clan people is to shoot multiple cords with blades on the ends from out of their clothes, giving the impression of this trope.
* CycleOfRevenge: At the end of the anime, Sakamoto falls victim to a political assassination but in his dying moments he convinces Hiwou to not pursue whoever is responsible and to instead keep using Homura to uphold the peace in Japan.
* DarkerAndEdgier: The manga is more violent than the relatively family-friendly anime version and was directed at mature audiences. And that's actually how the story was originally envisioned as.
* DeathByAdaptation: In the anime, Nue is defeated non-lethally both times she appears as an antagonist. In the manga, she is shot to death by Sakamoto.
* DefiantToTheEnd: In the manga, Sakamoto shoots Nue in the chest in cold blood when she's distracted by her hostage Yuki biting her arm. After gasping at the mortal wound in disbelief, Nue grits her teeth and retaliates by leaping at Sakamoto with centipede-like appendages, [[CurbStompBattle but on the next page]] she already is a cold corpse with smoke pouring out of a bullet hole in her forehead.
* DiedInYourArmsTonight: Masurao dies in Hiwou's arms after a long dramatic speech, with the boy [[StunnedSilence just staring]] at the dead man in shock for a while even as dozens of explosions go off around him.
* DisappearedDad: Hiwou's father Masurao left home in the backstory of the series and is later found to be working with the Wind Gang because they're the only group that lets he do as he please to further his research on clockworks.
* DistractedByTheSexy: In the manga, Sakamoto is flustered to see Nue naked before him and is put to sleep by her hypnosis power. However, Sakamoto doesn't hesitate to shoot a half-naked Nue to death later when she takes Yuki hostage.
* DoomedHometown: The first episode involves Hiwou's hometown being burned to the ground by the Wind Gang, with most of the villagers being taken as hostages.
* TheDragon: Arashi is the son of the Wind Gang's leader and Aka is his second-in-command. The two regularly appear to attack the protagonists with various machines.
* DropDeadGorgeous: In the manga, Nue bares her chest one final time when she [[BattleStrip rips off her costume]] by releasing centipede-like CombatTentacles on Sakamoto. She's shot dead between pages and her half-naked corpse is shown sprawled over a pile of broken crates.
* DroppedABridgeOnHim: In the next-to-last episode, Kurogane attempts to drive the Westerners away with his machines but Hiwou stomps around his forces with Homura to get the fighting to stop. Kurogane is cut off by an explosion and is presumed to die uncerimoniously like that while Arashi just leaves out of regret for everything he's lost in the conflict, finally ending the series-long conflict with the Wind Gang.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes:
** Kurogane sends Aka to dispose of his son Arashi for disobeying orders, but that is ultimately shown to have just been meant to scare Arashi and keep him in line. In the same accident that causes Masurao to sacrifice himself for Hiwou, Kurogane is seen holding onto Arashi to keep him away from it.
** While Arashi acts aloof towards his allies that help operate the Mikoto, he is heartbroken when Ishi dies from their last confrontation with the Homura and gives up on fighting Hiwou any more.
* HeroicSacrifice: Masurao sacrifices his life for his son Hiwou by shielding him from being crushed between a wall and a large mech that rolled out of control on the unstable ship they were on.
* HistoricalInJoke: Hiwou encounters several historical figures throughout the series, before they made it big during the Meiji Restoration.
* HotterAndSexier: The anime has no fanservice scenes at all in it, so it's jarring how the manga adaptation features Nue hypnotizing Sakamoto and then Sai with tattoos on her nude body only to end up being killed with her tits out.
* HumongousMecha:
** The Homura can shift between carriage and humanoid forms. As a spring-controlled giant mech, it is piloted by Hiwou's movements via a suit within it.
** Arashi eventually counters Homura with a steam-powered combining mecha named Mikoto that was designed with help from Hiwou's father.
* ImpossiblyGracefulGiant: Averted with Homura, which is a stiff and heavy medieval robot powered by mainsprings.
* KidHero: The protagonist and his group of siblings and friends are all children. Jyoubu, the baby in the group, even has a role in activating Homura -- he's left swinging around as a counterweight in a bowl.
* KillerRabbit: Kurozaru fights by unleashing an army of robot monkeys on his enemies. They're small, cute and very hard to take seriously, but they do beat at least one man to death in the story.
* KnowWhenToFoldEm: Arashi spends the series clashing against Hiwou until it costs the life of his friend Ishi. With the defeat of the whole Wind Gang happening at the same time, the boy just calls it quits in grief instead of pursuing any more revenge against the heroes.
* MeaningfulName: In his dying speech, Masurao tells Hiwou that the kanji in his name means "to drive away" and that he hopes the boy can drive away war and bring about a new era of peace.
* MiniMecha: The Wind Gang's henchmen often ride animal-like mechs controlled by strings into combat.
* MsFanservice: For some reason the manga version turns the minor antagonist Nue into the typical femme fatale who tempts enemies with her nude body only to get uncerimoniously killed in an also eroticized way not too long after being introduced.
* NakedPeopleAreFunny: In episode 2, Shishi is being pulled to Homura by a fishing line when an attack dog keeps jumping at him with a torch in its mouth. He air jumps aboard in pain, with Hiwou laughing at how the fire burned his pants and exposed his butt.
* NippleAndDimed: The ''seinen'' manga version adds nudity scenes for the kunoichi Nue, but her nipples are only fully detailed on one page. On all the others, the illustrator only draws her areolae or frames her hypnotic body with obscuring dream-like imagery.
* OffingTheOffspring: Kurogane orders Aka to dispose of Arashi for disobeying his orders and protecting Yuki and Hana. Arashi attempts to strike his father down for this, but Hiwou interrupts him, insisting Arashi must forgive Kurogane simply because he is his father.
* PastelChalkedFreezeFrame: The anime features several pastel-colored freeze frames.
* PutOnABus: Nue is the antagonist in episode 12 of the anime but disappears until the final episode, where she's just beaten again in a very quick scene. Still a better outcome for her than how she's brutally killed in the manga...
* QuirkyMinibossSquad: The heroes are frequently followed by oddball henchmen from the Wind Gang who use a variety of inventive machines.
* SchizoTech: The story takes place in the [=1860s=] and features exaggerated clockwork machines powered by mainsprings and steam power that wouldn't be doable in that time period.
* TeamDad: Sai is the actual leader of Hiwou's squad who makes all the important decisions regarding their next destination.
* TeamMom: Among the main cast, Mayu is the one who keeps Hiwou and Shishi in line whenever they start getting into trouble.
* TheSmurfettePrinciple: Nue is the only henchwoman in the Wind Gang, and a very minor one at that. In the anime she's prominently featured in a single episode and then only returns in a brief scene in the final episode. In the manga she loses a mech fight to Hiwou and is easily slaughtered by Sakamoto when she's cornered by him.
* SpiderTank: In episode 2, Arashi pilots a car-sized locomotive on spider-like legs.
* ThouShaltNotKill: Hiwou hates murderers and dissuades people from killing their enemies throughout the story whenever possible.
* TotemPoleTrench: Hiwou pilots Homura by manipulating an adult-sized suit while riding on Shishi's shoulders.
* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: The Wind Gang attempts to take over Japan through violence and to drive away foreign influence over the country so they can establish a new industrial revolution.
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